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No. 531,110. Patented Dec. 18,1894.

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RICHARD T. GARLAND, OF ALTooNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,110. dated December18,184. Application filed December 14, 1893. Renewed November 21. 1894.Serial No. 529,534. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. GARLAND, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing in Altoona, in the county of Blair, in the State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Oar-Doorfof which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in cardoors, of that class orconstruction, wherein the door is carried inward flush with the side ofthe car when closed, and which is moved outward from the opening atstarting and then slid .on ways or tracks bearing obliquely from the carside for a distance and then lying parallel with the side of the car;and theinvention consists in tracks of particular construction incombination with sup porting and guiding brackets, and improved meansfor fastening the door and for moving it laterally, and starting it onthe tracks.

The invention is hereinafter fully I described, and particularly pointedand distinctly claimed;

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention: Figure 1 is aside view in elevation of the car-door, showing the top and bottomsupporting rails, the guide brackets, and the fastener as looking thedoor in position in the car. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig.1 showing the direction of the track. Fig. 3 is a section on the line3-3 of Fig. 1 showing the door moved outward with the guiding bracket inalignment with the lip of the track. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 33of Fig. 1 showing the door moved inward and closed. Fig. 5 is a sideelevation of the lower portion of a car door having my improvementsattached, and drawn to a larger scale than Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a sectionon line 67 of Fig. 5 showing the position of the fastener when the dooris closed and its position in dotted lines when operating to carry thedoor outward on the track. Fig. 7 .is a section on the line 67 of Fig. 5showing the door moved clear out and the lever of the fastener inposition as having started it on the track. Fig. 8 is a detail of one ofthe twin slide brackets.

A designates the side of the car which is of the usual planeconstruction, composed of upright boards, or other layer of plain stuff.

In the side of the car is made a door-opening of the dimensions desired,and made to be completely and snugly closed by the door when adjustedand arranged in the opening. The door frame has vertical rabbeteduprights or posts as usual against which the door lodges when closed,and which prevents the door from moving inward through the door opening.Along the side of the car, parallel with the top and bottom of the doorand opening are secured the tracks 8, 9, formed with alateral edgeflange 10, along their outer edges under which the lips or catches ofthe guiding-brackets engage,and prevent the door from being jarred,lifted, or moved from its position on the tracks whenbeing slid thereon.In each guide-rail of the door track adjacent to the closing side of thedoor, is formed a notch 11, made with flaring or outwardly curved sides,12, substantially as shown in thedrawings, and to guide the lug on thedoor which passes through the respective notches, a twinslide bracket13, is secured to the rail, having a way 14, therein to guide thedoor-bracket, and also formed with passages or grooves 15 to permit theinner flanges of the door brackets to move through when the door is slidalong. Adjacent to the closing edge of the door, at a point to registerwith the flaring-notches of the rails, and ways in the twin-brackets,are secured the guide-brackets 16, 17, at the top and bottom ofthe door.These brackets 16, 17, have a vertical depending flange 18 on the innerside, and a curved or hooked flange 19,

on the outer side, the opening between them conforming to the shape'ofthe rails, so that the hook-flange 19 takes under the flange of therailsand holds the door securely on the track. The hooked-flange 19, istapered, as shown, to fit loosely the flaring-notch in the rail, and theflange 18, is substantiallyrectangular and made longer than the notch inthe rail, so that when the door is moved outward preparatory toslidingit 0pen,-it lodges against the Wall of the rail on either side of thenotch, and stops the door from being thrown from the track, and bringsthe opening in the bracket in alignment with the rail ready to permitthe door to be slid open. At the other end of the door at the top andbot- 2 tom, are secured two other guide-brackets 20,

21, the rail passage through them being identical to those described asformed in the brackets on the other end of the door. Both the flanges ofthe brackets 20, 21, are longer than the notches in the rails, so thatin passing across or over the notches the door will not be thrown fromthe rails. By making the notches of the rails flaring and the flanges ofthe brackets which enter them tapering, there is very little prospect oflodgment of the parts when moving the door out or in. In square flangesand corresponding notches there is likelihood of contact of the edgeslodging against each other.

The track rails at that portion lying along the door opening are obliqueto the side of the door, the end at the abutting edge of the door beingclosed to the car to carry the door in at that point, and from thencethe rails bear out, to the other side of the door opening, from whichpoint the rails run parallel with the side of the car and are placed farenough away, to give the door free and easy run-way, substantially asindicated in the drawings.

To look the door, unlock it, move it inward and outward, and to start iton the tracks or rails, as well as to draw it tight when moved flush inthe opening I have invented and devised the following described means:

In the jamb of the door is out a seat 22, in which is fitted and secureda keeper23, having a notch or recess 24:, to take and hold the nose ofthe fastening lever, and on the outer face of the keeper are formed anumber of depressions or notches 25, in which a lug or projection on thelever engages when used to throw the door outward and to start the door.In the door is mortiseda bracket 26, havinga recess 27, in the walls ofwhich is formed a diagonally arranged slot 28 shown in dotted lines inFigs. 6 and '7 and in the slot 28, is fulcrumed a lever 29. This leveris formed with a nose 30 which takes in the recess 24,

of the keeper 23, so that when the 16V6l-l18.lldie is moved downparallel with the door, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, the door isheld tight, and the lever may be secured and locked by a pin 31, passedthrough staples 32, or other suitable locking appliances. When it isdesired to open the door, the lever is released, and the handle turnedoutward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 6 of the drawings, until thelug 33, engages in one of the notches in the keeper, and then themovement of the lever being continuedthe door is carried outward, thelogs on the doorbrackets passing through the ways of the twin-bracketsand through the notches of the rails, and then by carrying the leverclear down,as shown in Fig.7 of the drawings, the door is moved clearout to its limit, and at the same time, started to slide open. Itfurther power is required to start the door clear to slide, a newpurchase is taken in an adjacent notch of the keeper, and the door willslide clear and free along the side of the car.

hat I claim is-- 1. The combination with acar and a car-door arranged tohave one end moved off and onto guide-rails, of a fastening and startingmeans consisting of a keeper secured to the jamb of the door-openingformed with a recess and having notches or depressions in its outersurface, a bracket secured to the door formed with a recess having aslot in its opposite walls, a lever fulcrumed in the slot and arrangedto engage in the recess of the keeper to lock the door and formed withalug to engage the notches in the keeper, whereby the door may be movedonto the tracks and started thereon.

2. The combination witha car and a car-door of a fastening and openinglever formed with a lug on its outer edge and a notched plate on thejamb of the door whereby the leverlug may engage the notches of theplate and start the door on its supports.

3. The combination with acar andasliding car-door, of track-railssecured along the top and bottom of the door opening and arrangedobliquely to the side of the car and formed with lateral edge flangesalong their treadfaces and notches having flaring side-edgesin thetreads, brackets secured between the rails and the car and formed withways registering with the notches of the rails, guide-brackets on thetop and bottom of the door having their outer flanges formed to bookunder and engage the lateral tread-flange of the rail and made withtapering side-edges to pass through the notches of the rails and intothe ways of the brackets,and the inner flanges elongated to lodgeagainst the notches in the guiderails as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of twoattesting witnesses. i

RICHARD T. GARLAND. Attest:

A. L. BAILEY, A. G. HEYLMUN.

